Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: doc formats

[Miles Bader]

2006/1/20, matthew hannigan <address@hidden>:
> > Er, I don't know about that.  There are about 1,783 different
> > "structured text" formats out there, and ReST doesn't seem to be a
> > particularly great one.
>
> With the requirement is that the plain text / source text is usable/
> presentable on it's own. ie. that it requires almost nothing
> in the way of tags; and structure is inferred from common
> conventions in the text.

There's a conflict between readability and writability in this case;
you _have_ to make some compromise.

> Emacs can help with this sort of thing anyway, can't it?

Sure, but a format that's only usable in practice with specialized
editors is not much of a step above xml....

-Miles
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